Chapter 268 : The Emperor abdicates! Destroy!(1/3)
"The Great Zhou is a thousand victories!"
"The Great Zhou is a thousand victories!"
The main streets of the Great Zhou capital were completely crowded with people shouting.
Everyone's face was filled with excitement, pride, and excitement. The emotions of these people were real.
For an old and powerful empire, the public's pride is a luxury, but also a necessity.
With the revival of Tianyan, the pride of the billions of people of the Great Zhou Dynasty has risen to the extreme. However, in the years since Emperor Wan Yun ascended the throne, especially with the defeat of the Borderlands, the empire suffered a series of blows, and the pride has fallen to the extreme.
They needed a victory too much. This time, the victory of Zhou Li and Ao Yu was like timely rain, which inspired the people's sense of honor.
"Did you see it? My Great Zhou has the best people in the world." Emperor Wan Yun said: "Their hearts are still with us. By the way, Ao Yu, where is that Marshal Li Huamei?"
Yun Zhonghe said: "She has gone back."
Emperor Wan Yun said, "What a pity. This is a strange woman, but I can't meet each other."
Next, the three of them chatted all the way, walked for more than an hour, and finally entered the palace.
Zhou Li personally helped the emperor down the imperial crown.
"Let's go, the three of us go to see the Supreme Emperor together." The emperor said: "The ministers will go to the Palace of Light first."
"Abide by the order!" The civil and military officials were neatly arranged and went to the hall first.
The emperor took Zhou Li and Yun Zhonghe to Qian'an Palace together.
Today's Qian'an Palace was full of joy, and the palace gate was opened. After seeing Zhou Li and Yun Zhonghe, Hou Chen's husband immediately bowed and said, "I pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor, Prince Yin, and Hou Nulang. Hurry, hurry, go in. The Supreme Emperor is already anxious and couldn't sleep in the middle of the night yesterday."
After entering Qian'an Palace, I heard the hearty laughter of the Supreme Emperor from afar.
"Sons meet with the father."
"The grandson pays homage to the emperor and grandfather."
"I will meet the Supreme Emperor."
The Supreme Emperor smiled so hard that he couldn't stop, and held Zhou Li and Yun Zhonghe's hands respectively, and kept saying, "Okay, okay, okay."
Next, the Supreme Emperor seemed to be unable to find anything to express his joy in his heart, and said self-deprecatingly: "I am really a little like a pig. I will get fatter after a little raising. Look, I have weighed more than ten pounds in less than a month."
The emperor smiled and said, "Before, the Supreme Emperor was worried that you two would pray for your hunger strike. He was already skinny and bone-thin. After knowing the news of your victory, he resumed his meal and his face looked much better."
The Supreme Emperor said: "It is also the emperor's filial piety. He comes to accompany me to eat every day, so I can eat more."
Eunuch Hou Chen said, "The Supreme Emperor, Your Majesty, the time is almost over, and we should set off."
"Yes, yes, yes." The Supreme Emperor said: "The civil and military officials are still waiting for us in the Palace of Light, go, go, go."
Then, the emperor and Zhou Li bent down.
"The Supreme Emperor, please take you to the Palace of Light."
"Grandfather, grandson will carry you to the Palace of Light."
Seeing the two of them bent down at the same time, the Supreme Emperor said, "It's better for the emperor, haha."
The emperor stepped forward, carried the Supreme Emperor on his back, and walked towards the hall.
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From today's entry into the city, Yun Zhonghe and Zhou Li went in and out together, rode on the imperial mian and went to see the Supreme Emperor together. At this time, as a minister, he entered the Hall of Light from behind the hall together, which was actually very presumptuous.
Zhou Li will soon become His Royal Highness. Wouldn't you be proud of yourself when you, Ao Yu, do this? You are too domineering and presumptuous.
But no one pointed it out, especially the Emperor's Party, and no one felt that.
Because everyone knows that now is the sword light and sword shadow, which is the most critical moment for the decisive battle between the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor. Ao Yu Zhiji Wushuang must stay by the side all the time, and those rules can only be ignored.
After entering the hall, the Supreme Emperor sat on the golden throne, and the emperor sat on the lower right head. Zhou Li and Yun Zhonghe both came to the court and found their own place to stand.
The emperor still talked and laughed with the Supreme Emperor, but none of the civil and military officials in the court laughed.
The previous enthusiasm outside the city disappeared without a trace was only full of depression and tension.
Because everyone knows that the next situation will be the collapse of heaven and earth, which will completely change the history of the Great Zhou Empire and even the history of the world.
"The Supreme Emperor has an order, and I will report it."
"I have the foundation!"
Prime Minister Wu Zhi of the cabinet came out and said: "Prince Yin was benevolent, righteous, decisive, loyal and filial. He first saved all the people of Langzhou, and praised all the people in the world. This time he defeated the more with less, calmed the rebellion of King Zhenhai, eliminated 100,000 pirates, saved all the people of the world, and saved the Great Zhou Haima. He had great achievements. I requested the Supreme Emperor, requested His Majesty the Emperor, and appointed Prince Yin Zhou Li as the crown prince."
Just as Wu Zhi finished speaking, Duke Zhou Lian, deputy envoy of the Privy Council, also stepped out and said: "I will discuss it."
Prince Lao Liang stood up tremblingly and said, "I will discuss it."
More than 200 officials, including the Minister of Personnel, the Minister of War, the Minister of Justice, bowed and said, "I will ask the Supreme Emperor and His Majesty to make Prince Yin the Crown Prince of the Great Zhou Empire."
This is a grand dynasty meeting, with seven or eight hundred officials attending.
After more than 200 officials elected Zhou Li as the crown prince, people stood up and bowed down.
"I'm going to discuss it!"
More and more people stood up, and in the end more than half of the officials stood up.
The emperor had a smile on his face, but his heart was already cold.
Previously, two-thirds of the officials in the court supported him as the emperor. After this war, another group of people changed their positions and turned to loyalty to the Supreme Emperor and Zhou Li.
The Supreme Emperor did not speak out, as if he was waiting, as if he was giving civil and military officials a chance.
It’s now. If you want to take the team, you must seize it. If you miss this opportunity, there will be no next time.
Sure enough, dozens of officials stood up one after another and knelt down to make Zhou Li the crown prince.
It's almost done now, so don't wait, all those who need to make a statement have already made a statement.
The Supreme Emperor smiled and said, "Emperor, what do you think?"
The emperor said: "My son asks my father to make a decision."
The Supreme Emperor said: "I can still make arbitrary decisions in the past, such as suppressing the rebellion of King Zhenhai. But now this is the establishment of the prince, and of course you, the emperor, need to speak."
The emperor said: "Zhou Li was filial, kind, righteous, and decisive. His sons valued him very much before. After defeating the Borderlands, he just wanted to hone him. Now that he has enough training, he can also take on the heavy responsibility and can indeed be made the crown prince."
The Supreme Emperor said, "Then you can do this order."
The emperor said: "Father, establishing a crown prince is a major event for the country. It requires sacrifice to the ancestral temple and perform great rituals."
The Supreme Emperor said: "The first thing is to be solemn, but to be simple. First, the will is issued, and then to sacrifice to heaven and ancestors."
The emperor said: "My son obeys the order."
Then, the emperor said loudly: "I will enthrone the Prince of Yin Zhou Li as my Grand Zhou Prince."
A moment later, the eunuch Hou Zheng brought up a new dragon robe and a new crown to replace it for Zhou Li.
The prince's robe is also a dragon, but it can also be called a python. It embroidered with a golden dragon, but it is just four claws, but it is already golden yellow. It is different from the ministers and is similar to the emperor in terms of clothing.
The emperor is the monarch, and the prince is the young king.
After changing into a brand new golden robe and golden crown.
The civil and military officials knelt down neatly and shouted: "See Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness, Thousand Years, Thousand Years."
The Supreme Emperor said, "Come on, add a chair and place it on my right."
The eunuch Hou Chen brought a chair and placed it in the lower right head of the Supreme Emperor, slightly lower than the emperor.
Crown Prince Zhou Li knelt down and said, "Grandfather, how dare grandson? It's better to stand."
The Supreme Emperor said: "If you can do it normally, but today it doesn't work, you should come up and sit down."
The prince Zhou Li did not dare to disobey the sacred order, so he bowed three times and bowed nine times again, and then he came to the right of the Supreme Emperor and sat down.
Everyone was a little confused when they saw this scene.
Have there been such an example since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty? Are there three lords sitting on it?
There were two regents before. Because the emperor was still young, the empress dowager sat on the golden throne with the emperor in her arms.
But three people sat there, which was unprecedented.
The crown prince should have been a joy, but the atmosphere in the court did not have any joy, but instead became more solemn and depressing.
Because everyone knows that establishing a prince is just the first step.
The next step is to force the emperor to abdicate, which is the real change of heaven.
Everyone had eyes, and there were more than 100,000 troops in the capital, guarding every city gate as if facing a great enemy.
During this month, there is a curfew in the capital every day.
Moreover, the guards in the palace suddenly doubled, from ten thousand to thirty thousand.
Looking at the Emperor's side, General Yingyang, General Dan Tai Jing, and General Li Tiexin were all covered in armor, leading nearly 20,000 troops not far from the palace.
Not only that, Magistrate Ao Xin was wearing armor and holding a silver spear, and also stood outside the palace.
It was a completely stance that the civil war was about to break out.
What happens if the Supreme Emperor forces the emperor to abdicate today?
Will the emperor be willing to abdicate with more than 100,000 troops? If he is unwilling to abdicate, will a civil war break out immediately?
Will the capital city flow into a river?
Heaven will change at any time!
The atmosphere inside and outside the palace was extremely tense, as if a little bit of fire would trigger a huge fire.
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The Supreme Emperor said: "Okay, now that the prince has also been established, we can talk about another thing."
Here comes, everyone's ears are erect, their skin is tense, and their scalp begins to tighten.
"It was about four months ago, and in this court, it was also in front of all civil and military officials." The Supreme Emperor said: "I have some differences with the emperor, and you all should still have the impression of me."
To be continued...